Painting metallic pre-Heresy Sons of Horus
The Luna Wolves, and their later incarnation as the Sons of Horus, are one of the First Founding Space Marine Legions who get a lot of attention from pre-Heresy fans. Despite this, there is little official material from GW by way of a guide to their appearance. As the Sons of Horus, we’ve got no officially-painted miniatures and a handful of textual and artistic references.
My inspiration comes from the illustration in the Index Astartes article and a handful of references to the armour being a ‘metallic sea green’ in colour. I should mention that I've since seen a handful of examples painted using a Vallejo colour which is a very close (non-metallic) match for the Index Astartes illustration and looks good, although the precise name of the colour escapes me. The Collected Visions art books depict them in various tones, from pale green through green-grey to a very dark, almost black grey tone. I suppose one way to look at this is it leaves a lot of freedom for us to interpret things our own ways.
Painting Space Marine Legions – Alpha Legion – part b
Continuing from part A, this article concludes the guide for painting pre-Heresy Alpha Legion marines.
The model used for this tutorial was built in a previous tutorial:
Mark V power armour: Part A | Part B.
One of the risks of using PVA glue to create studs is that they can be easily rubbed off when handling the model. Inevitably some of the studs did rub off this model whislt painting, leaving some areas looking a little strange. A quick an easy way to resolve this, which also helps contribute to weathering the model, is to drill small holes where the studs should be. In the picture belows, I've drilled a hole in the helmet and shoulder pad where studs were rubbed off.
Painting Space Marine Legions – Alpha Legion
The model used for this tutorial was built in a previous tutorial - Mark V power armour: Part A | Part B.
Alpha Legion, unsurprisingly, have very little pre-heresy artwork. True to their nature, they are a very secretive Legion andseem to be camera shy. From the artwork we do have, they seem to be predominantly in mark IV and V power armour. Being the last legion to be established, it makes sense that they don't have access to earlier marks of armour.
New Miniatures Review : Mantic Skeleton Regiment – part 2
As promised here's a painting guide for skeletons using the new Mantic figures.
This is the 20th figure that was missing from my previous post. Here's a shot of the front and back of the little chap and you'll see that he's quite nicely detailed, but not overly so for a rank and file figure.
Painting metallic pre-Heresy Thousand Sons
This is my method for painting metallic pre-Heresy Thousand Sons, in seven easy steps. I've been assembling a force for a while and this is a test scheme I tried out; in the end I decided not to go for the metallic look on the force, although there was interest about how the look was achieved and so I created this tutorial.
I spent a while looking for metallic red paints but didn't find anything which worked well for my purposes. If anyone does, though, please let me know! So this is all done with Games Workshop paints (regular, Foundation, and washes).
It is important that you let each layer dry fully before painting the next. This can take a few hours but if you don't wait for them to dry then the paint can pool and mix in funny ways you don't want. Aside from drying time it's very fast, and could be sped up more by batch-painting and/or using an airbrush.
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